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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [sysfs] why ->delete_inode() instead of ->clear_inode()?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 12:36:25 +0100
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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:06:34AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> >From the look of things proc_delete_inode can also be changed to a clear_inode
> method if that is preferred.

Already that way in the local tree, along with quite a few other filesystems...